Formulas · Release the Exterior 解表 · Uihak Immun (醫學入門)
Ephedra, Apricot Kernel, Coix and Licorice Decoction
Mahaenguigam-tang
한글 마행의감탕 · Pinyin Ma Xing Yi Gan Tang
麻杏薏甘湯
Composition 構成
- Mahwang麻黃 마황 · Ephedra8 g
Chief 君 - Uiiin薏苡仁 의이인 · Coix Seed8 g
Chief 君 - Haengin杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel4 g
Deputy 臣 - Gamcho甘草 감초 · Licorice4 g
Envoy 使
Total 24 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts.
Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.
Actions 效能
- Resolves wind damp lodged in the surface
- Relieves pain that worsens toward evening
Indications 主治
Pattern-based
- Wind damp with pain that prevents turning
- worse toward dusk
Biomedical correlates
- Arthralgia with diurnal variation
Source text 原文
Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑
治風濕, 身疼不能轉側, 日晡加劇. 麻黃ㆍ薏苡仁 各二錢, 杏仁ㆍ甘草 各一錢. 右剉, 作一貼, 水煎服. 《入門》
Translation
Treats wind damp with body pain that prevents turning from side to side, worse toward dusk. Ephedra and coix seed 2 don each; apricot kernel and licorice 1 don each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct in water and take. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Seup)
Clinical commentary 臨床
Zhongjing's formula from the Jingui, and the only one in this section without aconite. Coix seed is the damp medicinal that works through the flesh rather than the interior, and it stands level with the ephedra.
日晡加劇 — worse toward dusk — is the timing that marks damp rather than wind, and it recurs in the Jaundice chapter at 5.2.4 for the same reason: the yin hours are when damp is heaviest.
**Contains ephedra, which raises blood pressure and heart rate and is restricted in many jurisdictions.** — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.